Meet Claire

I’m Claire, founder of Impactful People.

I work with leaders and organisations who care deeply about doing good work, but know that leadership doesn’t always feel as clear, shared, or effective as they want it to be.

Most of the people I work with are capable and commitment, they’re navigating real pressure, competing priorities, and the challenge of leading alongside others at pace.

That’s where I support.

How I see leadership

My view of leadership comes from being inside organisations, not just advising them.

I’ve sat in Leadership teams as a Tech Leader and held stand alone People leadership roles where pace is high, priorities shift, and leaders are expected to deliver while figuring things out in real time. I know what it’s like to sit between the business and its people, trying to make leadership land day to day.

Alongside that, experience in international sport (🏑) and criminal law shaped how I think about pressure, trust, and shared responsibility when the stakes are real.

All of that informs how I work now.
Leadership isn’t a theory to apply. It’s something people learn and practise together, inside real organisations, over time.

How I work with leaders

When people work with me, they often say things feel clearer and lighter quite quickly.

Not because the challenges disappear, but because we slow things down enough to see what’s really going on and where leadership is getting stuck.

The work focuses on:

• helping people think together, not in silos

• creating space for honest conversations that move things forward

• sharing responsibility so leadership doesn’t bottleneck

• building judgement and confidence at every level
  
  

Whether I’m working with emerging leaders, people leaders, or senior teams, the aim is the same: leadership that holds up day to day, not just on paper.

What I care about

I care about leadership that:

• is shared rather than heroic

• supports people to do a better job together

• feels human without losing rigour

• stands up under pressure

I’m not interested in shiny frameworks or one-off interventions. I’m interested in creating the conditions where leadership learning sticks, behaviour changes, and organisations feel more capable as a whole.

That’s what leaderful organisations look like in practice.

If you’re thinking about working together

If leadership in your organisation feels heavier than it needs to, or responsibility is sitting with too few people, it’s usually a sign something needs to shift.

A conversation is often the best place to start.